Senior AI Engineer: AI Workflow & Automation Lead

URBN Urban Outfitters, Inc.; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 130,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Employee discounts

PTO and retirement savings

Job summary

URBN Urban Outfitters, Inc. is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to build and evolve the AI-powered development harness used by product, UX, and engineering teams to move initiatives from design to implementation.

This hands-on role owns the tooling, templates, and gate logic that keep AI-assisted work traceable and reliable as it hands off between teams. You will design and maintain agent instructions, validators, and lifecycle rules, partner with an AI Enablement Lead and engineering stakeholders,

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience building production software or internal platforms (APIs, workflow engines, developer tooling, or automation systems).
• Hands-on experience designing agent instructions, prompt systems, or LLM-backed workflows.
• Experience with spec-driven or artifact-lifecycle systems with AI integrated into the development lifecycle.
• Experience building and deploying AI agents in production, including agent architectures and orchestration patterns.
• Interest in quality discipline: testing, rubrics, evaluation datasets, LLM-as-judge approaches, and observability for AI workflows.
• Experience designing structured data contracts (JSON Schema, YAML, or similar).
• Comfort partnering with Product, UX, and engineering stakeholders; ability to translate between domain experts and technical constraints.
• Enthusiasm for exploring emerging AI capabilities, platforms, tooling, and techniques.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with an ability to explain complex AI concepts to non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the artifact lifecycle system that governs how work moves between AI-assisted stages
• Design schemas and traceability standards connecting requirements, use cases, and implementation
• Author and maintain AI agent instructions and skills — not casual use of AI coding tools, but genuine prompt/agent design
• Design, build, and deploy AI agents that automate or support steps in the development lifecycle
• Write automation (Python/Bash) that enforces schema and quality gates across the system
• Measure and score AI output quality against real usage, and build feedback loops so the system improves over time
• Partner with Product, UX, and Engineering stakeholders on shared standards and handoffs

Skills

Production software

Agent instructions

JSON Schema

Python scripting

CI/CD pipelines

Git

Cloud platforms

LLM workflows

Tools

Claude Agent SDK

LangChain

LangGraph

CrewAI

Cursor

Gemini

Google ADK

Job description

URBN Urban Outfitters, Inc. is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to build and evolve the AI-powered development harness used by product, UX, and engineering teams to move initiatives from design to implementation.

This hands-on role owns the tooling, templates, and gate logic that keep AI-assisted work traceable and reliable as it hands off between teams. You will design and maintain agent instructions, validators, and lifecycle rules, partner with an AI Enablement Lead and engineering stakeholders,